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Display Material Orientations for CQUADX4 Elements in NX 8 Nastran

Display Material Orientations for CQUADX4 Elements in NX 8 Nastran

Display Material Orientations for CQUADX4 Elements in NX 8 Nastran

(OP)
Hi All,
Please help me to display the material orientations of antisymmetric CQUADX4 elements. I set the material orientation angle to 45 deg in the "Edit Mesh Associated Data..." dialog box. I then tried to plot the material orientations by click check->material orientations. However, I received the following error:

These marked elements were skipped due to invalid orientations:
------------------------------------------------------------
570
571
572
... (elements 573 to 698 are listed here)
699 (last element in mesh)

Please tell me how to correctly plot the material orientation.

Thank You!

RE: Display Material Orientations for CQUADX4 Elements in NX 8 Nastran

Hello!,
Please note axisymmetric elements CTRAX3, CQUADX4, CTRAX6, and CQUADX8 of NX NASTRAN should be defined in the X-Z basic coordinate system, all grids and loads must lie in the X-Z plane of the basic coordinate system, where the Z axis of the basic coordinate system is the axis of symmetry and the X axis of the basic coordinate system is the radial direction. I tell you this because you mentioned on yur post "antisymmetric CQUADX4", and not any "antisymmetric" element exist in NX NASTRAN, antisymmetric refers to boundary conditions not element type.

If you do things correctly then plotting of material angle will success, here you are proof of this:



Best regards,
Blas.

PD
Of course, when defining the NX NASTRAN SOLVER ENVIRONMENT in the study make sure to select "ZX Plane" for "2D Solid Option" question, this is "NONE" by default, OK?

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RE: Display Material Orientations for CQUADX4 Elements in NX 8 Nastran

(OP)
Hello!
Thank you for the detailed reply. You are correct that I meant to type axisymmetric and not antisymmetric. However, I am still getting the same error as before. Can you post the Mesh Information? My Mesh information is:
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MESH INFORMATION

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MESH INFORMATION
Name : ortho test
Type of mesh : 2D
Number of elements in the mesh : 57
Number of nodes in the mesh : 208
Quadx8 Axisymmetric ZX elements : 57
Material Orientation Angle : 45 degrees
Layer : 1

MESH COLLECTOR INFORMATION
Name : ortho 8
Type : Solid Axisymmetric ZX Collector
Solid Property : PSOLID1
Name : PSOLID1
Type : PSOLID
Label : 1
Material : Ortho 1
Integration Network : Default
Stress Output Location : Default

MESH RECIPE INFORMATION
Element Type : CQUADX8
Meshing Method : Subdivision
Element Size : 3 mm
Attempt Free Mapped Meshing : false
Attempt Quad Only : Off - Allow Triangles
Midnode Method : Mixed
Split Quads : false
Max Jacobian : 5
Export Mesh to Solver : true
Transition Element Size : true
Match Edges : true
Match Edge Tolerance : 0.02 mm
Small Feature Tolerance (% of Element Size): 2.5
Merge Edges : false

Also, I have NX 8 and not NX 9. Thank you for all the help!

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